HOW DID MUSK & DOGE BENEFIT AMERICA? JUST THE FACTS PLEASE

“DOGE is a way of life. Like Buddhism. Is Buddha needed for Buddhism?” Was it not stronger after he passed away?” Parting words? Elon Musk is done making the government better. Questions… What exactly did Musk, via DOGE, walk out the door with? Does anyone know? Do you? Musk invested $250 million in the election. He didn’t walk away empty-handed. What personal data held by agencies DOGE infiltrated will Musk continue to have access to? That data could potentially be used for a number of different purposes, but one that Musk tried before is using such data to secretively microtarget voters. In 2024, Musk reportedly funded an ad campaign that targeted Jewish and Arab voters in battleground states with contradictory advertisements about Kamala Harris’s position on Israel. Government agencies like the SSA hold a great deal of sensitive information about individuals that could be used to influence them. There has never been transparency with the public, despite all of the claims, about precisely what DOGE was doing and what information it accessed and retained. DOGE has persistently pursued unrestricted access to sensitive and carefully protected data. SSA staff who stood up for Americans’ private information have left the agency in response to DOGE’s pressures or been replaced by formerly suspended employees who helped DOGE. SSA provided members of the SSA DOGE Team with unbridled access to the personal and private data of millions of Americans despite having never identified or articulated even a single reason for which the DOGE Team needs unlimited access to SSA’s entire record systems. What did they do, are they doing, or will they do with this data? And what does Musk being ‘gone’ actually mean? Is his access to government information cut off? Will the young, inexperienced group he put together really shut down his access as they continue to work? Lots of questions. Few answers that can be trusted. This week on its website DOGE is giving top billing to its important work…finding unused government credit cards and shutting them down. They’ve also been busy canceling what they say are unnecessary contracts, which run into the billions of dollars. Like the report today that HHS has canceled a contract with Moderna to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus? Let’s hope we don’t ever need that one.